The Majesty Building -- the tallest building between Orlando and Daytona Beach -- has been unfinished for about a decade.

WACX-TV SuperChannel President Claude Bowers broke ground on the building in 2001, and he believes it will one day serve as the new headquarters for his non-profit religious network.

He envisions retail shops, office space and a television studio.

He has raised most of the funds for the project through donations. There have been $38 million in pledges.

But Bowers vowed the building would be completed debt-free, and during the recession, the flow of money waned.

"I think it's symbolic of what the world needs to realize. You need to get out of debt, and you need to owe no man except to love them, and we committed to apply that," he said.

He is optimistic that the $10 million to $14 million still needed to finish an underground parking garage and the interior build-out will come in from donations, meaning possible completion in the next year and a half.

In the early years, there were complaints to the city of Altamonte Springs that the building was an eyesore, leading to the nickname "I-4 eyesore." But once the glass exterior was hung, the city says the complaints stopped.

As long as the project keeps passing inspections, there is nothing illegal about it sitting empty.

"You know, it took them 40 years to build the Washington Monument, so this is not within that base at all," Bowers said.